Newcastle Bid £12M For French International Striker

The Daily Mail is reporting that Newcastle are making a £12M move for 27 year-old French International striker Andre-Pierre Gignac.

Andre-Pierre Gignac – 27 year-old Marseilles striker The Frenchmen plays for Marseilles, and he has played 16 times with four goals for France, and he has been described as an English style center-forward but he doesn’t seem to score many goals.

And some have said he plays like Alan Shearer, but he doesn’t seem to score the number of goals that Alan scored, and since joining Marseilles from Toulouse in 2010, he has scored 32 goals in 101 appearances for Marseilles.

While at Toulouse for four seasons, before joining Marseilles, he scored 28 goals in 116 appearances.

The France international has been a sometime target of Everton and Fulham, and apparently he has been scouted for some time by Newcastle Chief Scout Graham Carr.

It seems that things are heating up now at Newcastle especially for strikers, and we’ve been liked with Wilfried Bony, St Etienne striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Aston Villa striker Darren Bent ion the last week.

It’s hard to know whether this news is true, but Newcastle need at least two good strikers brought in this summer, and it would be good to get the first one through the door as soon as possible.

Santon has pace dribbles the ball well a nd cuts in on his right foot hes LW all day long.

Cabaye needs to be pushed up to assist cisse.

Haidara is strong and is a proper LB with a left foot.

I agree on Sissoko and Tiote about their passing though.

Sissoko was pushed up too highand was given too much responsibility, that isnt is preffered position i think he would play a lot better in a deeper role where he could venture foward and help attacks if need be.

I think Tiote is a good player just didnt go that well last season and i think he could prove himself next season and show why we bought him in the first place.

Id have Anita in there straight away if either of them underperformed though, which is something Pardew never did meaning a mistake was somethng they could both do as they new they wouldnt be replace.

Why do people right of strikers before they get a chance to prove themselves in the prem Andre-Pierre Gignac is 27 not to old and right in his prime strikers peak in there late 20’s so if he does join after scoring the most goals in a season for OM he will be on a high and he is very strong in the air so might work well with cisse and he is french have faith in Carr .

Surely our whole problem last season was that cabaye can’t play further forward and that left a massive gap, causing cisse to snap at any chance he got? He is a deep playmaker and needs someone on front of him to play with. He needs to sit next to sissoko (ala Garcia and toure), and play in a front 4 from deep with sissoko playing the box to box role.

Just read through the comments on the previous thread, got a little hairy here tonight 😛

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“You know when it comes to racism, people say: ” I don’t care if they’re black, white, purple or green”… Ooh hold on now: Purple or Green? You gotta draw the line somewhere! To hell with purple people! – Unless they’re suffocating – then help’em.”

I can tell you now, Gignac hasn’t played for France in 3 years, he isn’t worth anywhere near £12 million. Bony however is and a lot more. I don’t mind us buying French players but that much for an average player at best in Ligue 1 is an absolute joke. It is these kind of signings that will cement us in the bottom 10 of the league. Grow some cojones NUFC and buy someone with talent. Gignac won’t last 5 mins in the Premier League, will almost certainly not have any resale value (to fit the transfer policy) and it’s an absolute insult he has been likened to Alan Shearer. I hope for all our sakes this is pure nonsense churned out by some journalist needing inches to fill.

So he looks a bit hit and miss on the goalscoring front but did have a good season in the year just gone. However, when you consider that he has provided exactly 0 assists in the last two seasons it’s hard to see what he’s going to actually add to the team if we keep Cissé.

In my opinion we should be looking more for a second striker to drop off cisse and into the hole. Someone who is equally adept up front or in the attacking midfield position if we play 4-2-3-1. Siem De Jong sounds perfect for that.

Gignac is not the most prolific but i can see why he would actually be a good buy for us….we need more beef up front. We are shit at set pieces too. this is a big man that can hold up, good technically….Joey barton calls him “the big man”. he scored 16 goals i believe in a marseille team that finished 2nd in the league. This season marseille never created much and won a lot of games 1-0 or 2-1 playing crap. ask anyone that follows french league and they will tell you marseilles was morelike the arsenal of george graham this season…So 16 goals in a team bereft of creativity is a very good haul in my book. Get him in and then Bony and we would have 3 different type of struikers on our books wich would permit us to change our attacking style during games….

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